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Problem With Smoke Tree

I've moved to a new house where the previous owners have planted a Smoke Tree which is well established. I pruned it in March, but it has only produced leaves on a couple of branches and leaves are sprouting from the trunk.  What's happened and have I particially killed it?!

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I doubt if you've killed it, some people cut these back to a frame work of stumps every year and new stems grow. The leaves on your trunk may be the beginning of that



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Rhod CromptonRhod Crompton Posts: 160

    Bigger and more dramatic foliage when cut back hard, but no flowers!! 

  • Rhod CromptonRhod Crompton Posts: 160

    Planted my first one last autumn, can't remember the cultivar! But was going too let it settle in for a year before the big chop. Always prefer a shrub I can coppice or stool. I did one for a client last spring and the regrow the was pushing 3 metres

  • Louby142Louby142 Posts: 2

    Thanks everyone, good to know I haven't killed it as it's a great tree, I'll be a bit more patient with it and wait for the rest of the leafs to come out. ?

  • Rhod CromptonRhod Crompton Posts: 160

    You may it takes a little longer for the buds to break through if the stems were quite old but it'll be back

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